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Hello,
I am not a slackware user but I have installed the Nvidia driver in fedora,mandriva and suse..I can only speak in generalities..
What I do is first make sure I have installed the kernel-source for your distro..Make sure you also have a complier unstalled (ithink Qt) but I am not absolutly sure..
Once thats done I do a ctrl-alt-f3 and logon as user then su and give the proper passwords..you should see a # sign after the logon information..I then go to init 3 by issueing the init 3 command..I log on again till I get the # sign again..I then cd /home/your user name
if thats where you downloaded the driver..I generally then issue the command ls to see whats in my directory..You shoild see the Nvidia
driver..Follow the readme instructions but I generally type the command ./ NVIDIA then hit the tab key to fill in the rest of the
driver..
If it starts it will ask you to accept the ULA for the driver then ask to download a kernel source that has never been able to find one so I type in No and enter to let it compile a new one..If sucessful and the software will ask if you want it to write a new Xorg.config file
and I usually say yes..At that point I like to restart the system by typing the command shutdown -r now that will reboot the computer and hopfully you will see the nvidia logo and you are set to go..
You can also type in a terminal glxgears to see what your framerate is.. generall it is over 2500 frames /5seconds..
I know there may be a better way or experts will ammend this but thats
how I have done it..(I'm no expert)
Goodluck,
jolphil

ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.o'. This happens most
frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or
improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs
from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver such as
rivafb/nvidiafb is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from
obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device(s).